Additional Resources

Characters (in order of appearance)

Columbia, SC - The Messenger office
Maggie Glenn – photojournalist
Thomas Hudson - owner
Lee Gervais – managing editor
Allen Hemphill - journalist

Tamasee, SC (Oconee County)
Aunt Margaret – Maggie’s Aunt on her father’s side
Billy Watson – gas station and store owner
Joel Lusk – Maggie’s cousin and Search & Rescue Squad member
Daddy - Maggie’s father
Ben Glenn – Maggie’s brother
Randy - Tamassee Search & Rescue Squad diver and Ronny’s brother
Luke Miller – environmentalist and rafter
Mama Tilson - owner of Mama Tilson’s (BBQ)
Earl Wilkinson – raft guide
Momma - Maggie’s mother
Sheriff Cantrell – Oconee Co. Sheriff
Herbert McClure – Oconee Co. Deputy Sheriff
Walter Phillips – Forest Service District Ranger
Ronny Moseley - Tamassee Search & Rescue Squad diver and Randy’s brother
Harley Winchester – logger
Tony Bryan – housing developer
Randall and Jeff Alexander– musicians

Minnesota – Kowlasky Family
Ruth – daughter
Herb – father
Ellen - Mother

Other
Peter Brennon – owner, Brennon Portable Dam Company (Carbondale, IL)

Interviews/Selected Media about the Book and Author

 
Video/Audio Interviews:

•  Host Rusty Jacobs talks with writer Ron Rash about his new novel, “Saints at the River”.
  http://www.ibiblio.org/wunc_archives/sot/?p=46

• Ron Rash on Doc Watson and Traditional Music in His Writing
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcigptChGEI

Written Interviews:

• Authors Around the South:  Ron Rash speaks with Karen Spears Zacharias
  http://www.authorsroundthesouth.com/author-2-author/38-author-news-a-interviews/139-ron-rash-speaks-with-karen-spears-zacharias

• Ron Rash Interview in The Morning News
  http://www.themorningnews.org/article/ron-rash
  Robert Birnbaum talks to one of the Carolinas’ favorite sons about the strengths of southern writers, the benefits of teaching welders, and the crushing reality that awaits MFA grads.

• Language Can Be Magical: An Interview with Ron Rash
  http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Rash_Ron.htm

Rash on Writing and Themes:

• The O. Henry Prize Story’s Author Spotlight
  http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/spotlight/rash.html

• Ron Rash on the Importance of Place
  http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/rash_r/ron_rash_onwriting.htm

• The Story Behind Saints at the River
  http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/rash_r/saints/behind_saints.htm

Readings by Rash:

• Saints at the River and Selected Poems
  http://www.southernspaces.org/2007/saints-river-and-selected-poems
  In these four short videos, southern Appalachian poet Ron Rash reads three poems and an excerpt from his novel, Saints at the River.

• Saints at the River
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-HjGU9kl48
  The Richland County Public Library hosted Ron Rash, author of Saints at the River, as part of the One Book One Columbia Celebration.
  
  

Books and Poetry by Ron Rash

Novels

One Foot in Eden (2002)  Find @ APSU | Buy
The World Made Straight (2006)  Find @ Clarksville Public Library | Buy
Serena (2008)  Find @ APSU | Buy
The Cove (2012)  Find @ APSU | Buy

Poetry

Eureka Mill (1998)  Borrow | Buy
Among the Believers (2000)  Borrow | Buy
Raising the Dead (2002)  Borrow | Buy
Waking (2011)  Borrow | Buy

 Short Story Collections

The Night The New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina (1994)  Borrow | Buy
Casualties (2000)  Borrow | Buy
Chemistry and Other Stories (2007)  Find @ APSU | Buy
Burning Bright (2010)  Find @ APSU | Buy
Nothing Gold Can Stay (2013)  Borrow | Buy

Children's Book

The Shark’s Tooth (2001)